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Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game

Black Isle Studios · Bethesda Softworks · 2009-08-19

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RPG

Franchise: Fallout · Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 29, 1998 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 24, 2013 (Mac)

Fallout® 2 is the sequel to the critically acclaimed game that took RPG'ing out of the dungeons and into a dynamic, apocalyptic retro-future. It's been 80 long years since your ancestors trod across the wastelands.

270
playing now
94%
positive of 17k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
89/100
IGDB user rating (899 ratings)
39h
to beat · rushed 2h · completionist 15h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

270 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game is a 1998 role-playing video game developed by Black Isle Studios and published by Interplay Productions. It is a sequel to Fallout (1997), featuring similar graphics and game mechanics. The game's story takes place in 2241, roughly 80 years after the events of Fallout and 164 years after the atomic war which reduced the vast majority of the world to a nuclear wasteland. The player assumes the role of the Chosen One, the grandchild of the first game's protagonist, and undertakes a quest to save their small village on the West Coast of the United States.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 270 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,153 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~144/week).
  • · Review velocity up 48% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 6% of 6,214 RPG games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 698k–1.4M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 17,451 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.00 at GreenManGaming (2018-08-29) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days · $8.99 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

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40740720182026Week of 2018-01-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 201 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 204 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 151 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 149 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 134 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 161 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 99 positiveWeek of 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negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 120 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 323 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 407 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 206 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 135 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 202 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 232 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

3001152026-08-06 21:00 — 213 players2026-08-07 05:00 — 149 players2026-08-07 13:00 — 190 players2026-08-07 21:00 — 234 players2026-08-08 05:00 — 160 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 212 players2026-08-08 21:00 — 276 players2026-08-09 05:00 — 163 players2026-08-09 13:00 — 227 players2026-08-09 21:00 — 268 players2026-08-10 05:00 — 150 players2026-08-10 13:00 — 181 players2026-08-10 21:00 — 251 players2026-08-11 05:00 — 142 players2026-08-11 13:00 — 198 players2026-08-12 21:00 — 241 players2026-08-14 05:00 — 150 players2026-08-15 12:00 — 215 players2026-08-16 20:00 — 294 players2026-08-18 04:00 — 150 players2026-08-19 11:00 — 154 players2026-08-20 19:00 — 245 players2026-08-22 02:00 — 190 players2026-08-23 10:00 — 184 players2026-08-24 18:00 — 245 players2026-08-26 02:00 — 165 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 115 players2026-08-28 17:00 — 236 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 179 players2026-08-30 17:00 — 270 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, French, German

Player tags

RPGCRPGRetroSci-fiClassicIsometricDark HumorOpen WorldStory RichTurn-Based

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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